Re: possible optimization

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:31 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 18:59 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > You don't even need the names.  stat("/some/directory") will give you
> > > the number of entries in the directory in the st_nlink field.  An empty
> > > directory has st_nlink=2 because of "." and "..".  This is useful for
> > > non-deep counts.
> > 
> > Hmm. This is interesting. How portable is this amongst filesystems? (Of
> > course, it'll only work for file:/// files.)
> 
> Crap, I lied :)  st_nlink for a directory gives you the number of
> *subdirectories*, including . and ..
> 
> This is what we used in GMC to know when to display an expander in the
> folder tree.

But does this work with e.g. a smbfs filesystem, since smb doesn't have
the hard links that unix filesystems have.

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